Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- When an animal gets too hot or too cold, or feels pangs of hunger or thirst, it tends to relocate – to where it's cooler or hotter, or to the nearest place where food or ...

Lesley Fox has lobbied for years to help animal-loving students win the right to say no to dissections in science and biology classes. She was successful in Vancouver but has made little headway ...

THIS work will take the same place in the botanical teaching of the United States as will be occupied in this country by the “Practical Botany” of Messrs. Bower and Vines, when the latter is completed ...

Plant biologists have discovered at the genetic level how a vitally important species of grass plant -- maize, or corn -- responds to the challenge to growth posed by shade. Central to this work is ...